Table Pagination with React "Helper"

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In this lesson, we will add pagination to our table. It won't be an easy one-minute process.

Modifying Controller for Pagination

app/Http/Controllers/TaskController.php

// ...
 
public function index()
{
    return Inertia::render('Tasks/Index', [
        'tasks' => Task::all() 
        'tasks' => Task::paginate(5) 
    ]);
}
 
// ...

Now, our Task List page will stop working because of a TypeScript structure mismatch. We return paginate() from Controller, which is no longer the array of the Task type. Let's fix this.

Creating Paginated Response Type

We return tasks from the Controller not as a list but as a paginated object.

So, we need to create a specific new type for it, corresponding to the structure returned by Laravel pagination.

resources/js/types/index.d.ts

// ...
 
export interface PaginatedResponse<T = Task | null> {
    current_page: number;
    data: T[];
    first_page_url: string;
    from: number;
    last_page: number;
    last_page_url: string;
    links: {
        url: string | null;
        label: string;
        active: boolean;
    }[];
    next_page_url: string | null;
    path: string;
    per_page: number;
    prev_page_url: string | null;
    to: number;
    total: number;
}

Accepting Paginated Response in React

In three places, we need to change the type of data we get.

• We import our new PaginatedResponse type
• We use it in the export function instead of...